ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 6: Community mobilisation
This module on community mobilisation has been developed as a resource for those humanitarian and emergency workers whose engagement with child protection, brings them into contact with communities.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 5: Advocacy
This module provides practical information, guidelines, examples and tools to support organisations and key actors to undertake advocacy to bring about positive change for children in humanitarian contexts.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 4: Participation and inclusion
This module provides practical information, guidelines, inspiring case studies and participatory tools to support organisations and key adult actors to engage with children as rights holders and social actors, supporting their participation in decision making processes, which affect them and their communities.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 3: Programme design
This module provides practical information, guidelines and participatory tools for taking rights-based approaches to programme planning and implementation.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 2: Child rights-based approaches
This module is intended to provide a basic understanding of one of the key concepts underlying ARC resource pack: child rights and rights based approaches and why they are important in emergency settings.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Foundation module 1: Understanding childhoods
This module aims to equip those responding in emergencies with an introduction to the theory and practice of working with children and of children’s rights.
Resettlement as a protection tool for refugee children
In the attached article Susanna Davies and Carol Batchelor discuss the importance of ensuring methods of resettlement are able to function in today’s global context.
Latest Developments in Deinstitutionalisation across Europe
This infographic provides quick status reports on deinstitionalisation in the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Critical issue module 7: Children associated with armed forces or armed groups
This module aims to support the development of skills and knowledge in relation to emergency aspects of working with children affected by armed conflict, and to provide information and links for those who require more detailed resources and guidance.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Critical issue module 2: Education
This module places emphasis on understanding the vital need for reestablishing education during and after an emergency so as to minimise the psychological impact of the event and maximising the opportunity to strengthen preexisting education structures.
ARC resource pack: Study material - Critical issue module 1: Abuse and exploitation
This module aims to provide guidance on essential aspects of child abuse and exploitation, highlighting the main forms of abuse and presenting some possible action against it.
Building Community, Building Hope: 2016/2017 Prevention Resource Guide
This resource guide reflects the theme of the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect’s 20th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, "Building Community, Building Hope," which was held in Washington, DC, in August 2016.
Sexual Behavior Among Orphaned Adolescents in Western Kenya: A Comparison of Institutional and Family-Based Care Settings
The attached study compared the care environments of family-based care and institutional care to determine if care environment contributed to differences in sexual behavior and/or sexual exploitation of orphaned and separated adolescents.
Knowledge and attitudes towards disability in Moldova: A qualitative study of young people's views
Three semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with twelve schoolchildren, aged 13–15 years for the purpose of exploring the knowledge and attitudes towards disability of young people within Moldova.
Family Carers' Perspectives on Integrated Community Care in the Czech Republic
This abstract relays the findings of a survey on informal carers' views and opinions under the current conditions of social support in the Czech Republic.
EAC Child Policy 2016
The EAC Child Policy is the culmination of various processes geared towards the harmonisation of standards on and approaches to the implementation of child rights in the EAC.
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Oppressive Orientations in Orphan Support Projects in Homa Bay County, Kenya
This paper is a literature review on the conditions of HIV/AIDS orphans in Kenya.
Poverty and “Economic Deprivation Theory”: Street Children, Qur’anic Schools/almajirai and the Dispossessed as a Source of Recruitment for Boko Haram and other Religious, Political and Criminal Groups in Northern Nigeria
In this article, William W. Hansen argues that the street children who populate the cities of Northern Nigeria have no means of support other than begging for their daily food, petty crime or providing casual labor.
Advocating for Social Services for the Benefit of All Children and Their Families
This report from Opening Doors discusses the Opening Doors II pan-European campaign launched in Chisinau.
Summary Sheet: Preliminary Findings – December 2016: Zimbabwe Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment ZIMPHIA 2015-2016
The attached Summary Sheet, provides a short summary of the preliminary findings of the 2015-2016 ZIMPHIA Report.
Zimbabwe HIV Fact Sheet – 2015 Demographic and Health Survey
This HIV Fact Sheet provides short demographics on HIV prevalence and trends in Zimbabwe
The Illusion of Protection
Maxim’s story illustrates the problems with institutional care and the stagnation often seen in the child protection system.
Tia Palermo on Evaluation of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this Innocenti Podcast, Tia Palermo discusses The Transfer Project, a government run large-scale social cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa.





















